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• @willoremus@mastodon.social Will Oremus on mastodon

  I went on a quest to find out if AI is already secretly writing a lot of the stuff we read online.  I found more than I ever imagined.  —  From online recipes to mattress reviews to celebrity horoscopes, human writing is fast becoming the exception on the internet, rather than th…

• @mikemadden Mike Madden on x

  The future is robots publishing into the ether trying and failing to get people to click on SEO-optimized links https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @thelincoln Lincoln Michel on x

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... And yeah a lot of it won't be read by humans at all https://twitter.com/...

• @cabitzaf Federico Cabitza on x

  I agree. Along with the risk of pervasive falsehood and manipulation, through (or by?) AI-generated content, there is this degradation of the mechanisms for filtering and promoting quality and for preserving variety. When too many voices, none, or only the loudest. Divide et... h…

• @j2bryson Joanna J Bryson on x

  I'm not TOO worried about bad AI-generated writing making us stupider. I'm more worried about losing new voices because no on reads stuff from people they've never heard of. (gift artcl) #AIEthics He wrote a book Then a ChatGPT replica appeared on Amazon. https://www.washingtonpo…

• @amyklobuchar Amy Klobuchar on x

  Among many issues that must be immediately addressed with A.I.: compensation for content...news (see my bipartisan bill); books; movies, and just about everything else. 👀 ⬇️ He wrote a book on a rare subject. Then a ChatGPT replica appeared on Amazon https://www.washingtonpost.co…